Take on students today based on your reporting. Guest well, i think youre right. I think the Democrat Students today are different, the age of students is different. Im mostly focused on students who were right out of high school, so the experience that i wanted to focus on was what is that transition out of high school and into the work force. So that definitely doesnt capture all of the college population, but i wanted to understand how the pathways diverged after high school for different students. And most of the ways that i found they diverged were by Family Income. Students who have a lot of Family Income are going down much more traditional paths, students without a lot of Family Income had many more obstacles in their path. Host can you start by telling us as we get into those different issues a little more about your own path coming out of high school . Guest yeah. So i had a rocky high school period. Right after high school, i grew up in tampa, and after finishing high school
Sunday on cspan2 or any time on when that book tv network, pollution for serious bidders. I think democracy doesnt just like this. It looks like this. They are truly informed. Get informed, straight from the source. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the Nations Capital to do the opinion that matters most and this is what democracy looks like. Cspan powered by cable. During author, journalist honor dennis kreger, welcome back to the book tv set. I would ask you a question i dont ask many people, what is on your mind these days . I am worried about western civilization. The greatest civilization ever produced. If you care about liberty, women and their status in society, if you care about uplifting the court and creating non bigoted societies and my favorite liberty, everything is useless. I do believe i subscribe to that. It is hard toal believe western civilization is threatened, very notion there is no better or worse, equity trumps merit so the Education Department and longter
, along these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. Are pleased now to be joined author, journalist dennis, welcome back to the book tv set. Ill ask you a question i dont ask many people want to start an interview. What is on your mind these days . Wow. I am worried about western civilization. The greatest civilization that was ever produced. Would you care about liberty, if you care about women and their status in society, if you care about uplifting the poor, if you care about creating a non bigoted society and of course my e favorite, because without liberty Everything Else is useless. I do believe it give me liberty or give me death. I actually subscribe to that. It is hard to believe but western civilization is being threatened. The very notion there is no better or worse that equity trumps merit so that we will, you know the organ Education Department and the ontarioed education at the largest providence in canada have announced its White Supremacy or coloniali
And capitalism and one on gun violence in america. A couple more call in shows as well. We are pleased to be joined by author, journalist and Prager University founder, Dennis Prager. Welcome back to the book tv set. Im going to ask you a question i do not ask many people when i start an interview, what is on your mind these days . Mr. Prager i am worried about western civilization. The greatest civilization that was ever produced, if you care about liberty, if you care about women and their status in society, if you care about uplifting the poor, if you care about creating a nonbigoted society, and of course my favorite liberty. Without liberty everything is useless. I do believe give me liberty or give me death. I actually subscribe to that. It is hard to believe, but western civilization is being threatened. The very notion that there is no better or worse, that equity trumps merit, so that we will the Oregon Education Department in ontario education department, the largest province
Our speaker roosevelt. Montas roosevelt is senior lecturer in american studies and english at Columbia University and director of the and citizenship program, which introduces low Income High School Students to. The western political tradition through the study of original texts from 2008 to 2018, he served as director of columbias center for the core curriculum, and hes the author of rescuing how the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation. From Princeton University press 2021, a wonderful book i highly recommend to you and that please join me in welcoming roosevelt. Montas and ill get this over to thank you to to. Thank you everyone for being here. Um, i cant tell you what an honor it is for me to be here to meet some people for the first time with whom. I have been circling or who have been circling have been circling me and nice things about each other on twitter etc. And i literally just had like butterflies in my stomach coming to this event tonight b